The Road to Desistance: The Relationship between Formal Institutions of Social Control, Informal Social Bonds, and Intermittency in Offending
The Road to Desistance: The Relationship between Formal Institutions of Social Control, Informal Social Bonds, and Intermittency in Offending
Tamara HumphreyGrace LiErin Gibbs Van Brunschota Department of Sociology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canadab Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, CanadaTamara Humphrey is an Assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria. Her interests focus on how formative life events and structural disadvantage impact trajectories of offending and desistance from crime.Grace Li is a PhD candidate in Sociology and Statistics at the University of Victoria, Canada. Her research interests include demography and quantitative methods. She is particularly interested in developing and evaluating methods for modelling life transitions and trajectories.Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot is Professor of Sociology and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Calgary. Her primary research interests are in the realms of risk, criminal behaviour and social control, with specific interests in how individual, organization/agency and state orientations to crime and security diverge and converge. Her recent work has included a focus on offender management, technology and policing, and disinformation regarding security issues.